Tata Steel starts exports of Ferroshots from Kalinganagar

BHUBANESWAR: Tata Steel has commenced exports of Tata Ferroshots, a granulated pig iron product, from its plant at Kalinganagar in Jajpur district of Odisha.Rajiv Kumar, Vice President (Operation) of Tata Steel Kalinganagar Plant, flagged off the first export consignment to a South East Asian country, yesterday, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Tata Ferroshots was launched by the steelmaker from its Kalinganagar plant in March, it said. Within a few months of its launch, the product garnered a lot of interest from steel industry, which has traditionally used pig iron, sponge iron and scrap.